 Who, from the terror of this arm, so late Doubted his empire — that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath This downfall; since by fate the strength of Gods, And this empyreal substance, cannot fail; Since, through experience of this...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3801852Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1854
...fate, the strength of gods1 " And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; " Since, through experience of this great event, " In arms not worse, in foresight...advanced, " We may, with more successful hope, resolve 120 " To wage, by force or guile, eternal war, " Irreconcilcable to our grand Foe, " Who now triumphs,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English essays - 1854 - 176 pages
...fortune, of resolution nobler than the conquest, concludes by proclaiming " eternal war" against Him — Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy, Sole reigning, holds the tyranny of heaven. Surely, but for the exquisite grace of the language compared with the baldness of Shelley's, I might... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 570 pages
...since by fate 1 the strength of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight...hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 748 pages
...by fate, the strength of godsu And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight...hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand Foe, Who now triumphs, and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855
...since by fate the strength of Gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since, through experience of this great event, In arms not worse, in foresight...advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve I ;o To wage, by force or guile, eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 570 pages
...advanced, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconeileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs. and in the excess...holds the tyranny of Heaven." So spake the apostate ungel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair : And him thus answered soon his... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 448 pages
...of gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail; Since, through experience of this great event, Jn arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may...hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now tnumphs, and in the excess of joy, Ainsi parlait l'ange apostat,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 448 pages
...fools. 6. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise. 8. We may, with more successful hope, resolve To wage, by force or guile, successful war, Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and in excess of joy Sole reigning,... | |
 | Archibald Sinclair - English poetry - 1859 - 200 pages
...tail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanc'd, We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcileable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, aud in th' excess of joy Sole reigning, holds the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1861
...of god» And this cmpyreal substance cannot fait; Since, through expérience of this gréât erent, In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more successful hope résolve To wage by force or guile etcrnal war, Irreconcileable to our grand Foc, Who now triumphs,... | |
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